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Bug 426174 - sys-process/vixie-cron's LICENSE variable does not reflect init script
Summary: sys-process/vixie-cron's LICENSE variable does not reflect init script
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal QA (vote)
Deadline: 2019-10-11
Assignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it
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Keywords: PMASKED
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Blocks: init-script-license
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Reported: 2012-07-11 17:31 UTC by Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED)
Modified: 2019-10-11 15:07 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-07-11 17:31:09 UTC
The init script(s) provided in FILESDIR for sys-process/vixie-cron has a license of GPL-2 but GPL-2 isn't within the LICENSE variable of the ebuild(s):

files/vixie-cron.rc6 has license line:
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
... and is used by the following ebuilds:
vixie-cron-4.1-r10.ebuild:LICENSE="ISC BSD-2 BSD"

files/vixie-cron.rc7 has license line:
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
... and is used by the following ebuilds:
vixie-cron-4.1-r12.ebuild:LICENSE="ISC BSD-2 BSD"

There are two options here -- either LICENSE in the ebuilds should be appended with GPL-2 to cover the init script, or the init script should be relicensed so that it is covered by current LICENSE (this one is probably the preferred resolution).  See also bug 425702 .
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2015-08-10 07:15:27 UTC
feel free to make any change to LICENSE in cron packages
Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2019-10-11 15:07:55 UTC
Package removed.